Parallel Verses
The Emphasized Bible
But, an empty person, will get sense, when, a wild ass's colt, is born a man!
New American Standard Bible
When the
King James Version
For vain man would be wise, though man be born like a wild ass's colt.
Holman Bible
as soon as a wild donkey is born a man!
International Standard Version
An empty-headed person will gain understanding when a wild donkey is born a human being!"
A Conservative Version
But vain man is void of understanding. Yea, man is born [as] a wild donkey's colt.
American Standard Version
But vain man is void of understanding, Yea, man is born as a wild ass's colt.
Amplified
“But a hollow (empty-headed) man will become intelligent and wise
[Only] when the
Bible in Basic English
And so a hollow-minded man will get wisdom, when a young ass of the field gets teaching.
Darby Translation
Yet a senseless man will make bold, though man be born like the foal of a wild ass.
Julia Smith Translation
And man being empty will be without heart: and man will be born a wild ass's colt
King James 2000
For a vain man will be wise, when a man is born a wild donkey's colt.
Lexham Expanded Bible
But {an empty-headed person} will get understanding when a wild donkey's colt is born [as] a human being.
Modern King James verseion
For foolish man would be wise, and man is born a wild ass's colt.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
A vain body exalteth himself, and man, newborn, is like a wild ass's colt.
NET Bible
But an empty man will become wise, when a wild donkey's colt is born a human being.
New Heart English Bible
An empty-headed man becomes wise when a man is born as a wild donkey's colt.
Webster
For vain man would be wise, though man is born like a wild ass's colt.
World English Bible
An empty-headed man becomes wise when a man is born as a wild donkey's colt.
Youngs Literal Translation
And empty man is bold, And the colt of a wild ass man is born.
Themes
wild Donkey » Illustrative of » Intractableness of natural man
wild Donkey » Described as » Intractable
Fall of man » Man in consequence of » Intractable
Man » Compared to » A wild ass's colt
Sarcasm » Instances of » Zophar to job
Vanity » Evil people » Though full of, affect to be wise
Vanity » The wicked » Though full of, affect to be wise
Interlinear
Word Count of 20 Translations in Job 11:12
Verse Info
Context Readings
God Can Do As He Pleases
11 For, he, knoweth men of falsity, and seeth iniquity, and him that doth not diligently consider. 12 But, an empty person, will get sense, when, a wild ass's colt, is born a man! 13 If, thou, hast prepared thy heart, and wilt spread forth, unto him, thy hands -
Names
Cross References
Job 39:5-8
Who hath sent forth the Wild Ass free? And, the bands of the swift-runner, who hath loosed?
Psalm 73:22
But, I, was brutish, and could not perceive, Like the beasts, had I become before thee.
Ecclesiastes 3:18
Said, I, in my heart, as concerning the sons of men, That God was minded to prove them, - and that they might see, that they were beasts, of themselves.
Job 5:13
Who captureth the wise in their own craftiness, yea the headlong counsel of the crooked:
Job 6:5
Doth the wild ass bray over grass? Or loweth the ox over his fodder?
Job 12:2-3
Of a truth, ye, are the people, and, with you, wisdom, will die.
Job 15:14
What is a mortal, that he should be pure? or that righteous should be one born of a woman?
Job 28:28
And said to the son of earth, Lo! the reverence of the Lord, that, is wisdom, and, to avoid evil, is understanding.
Psalm 51:5
Lo! in iniquity, was I brought forth, And, in sin, did my mother conceive me.
Psalm 62:9-10
Surely, vanity, are men of low degree, Deception, men of high degree, - In the balances, they go up, They, are made of vanity, altogether.
Psalm 92:6
A man that is brutish, cannot know, And, dullard, cannot discern this: -
Proverbs 30:2-4
Surely, more brutish, am, I, than any man, nor doth, the understanding of a son of earth, pertain to me;
Jeremiah 2:24
A wild ass, taught of the desert, In the desire of her soul, she snuffeth the wind, In her occasion, who can turn her back? None who seek her, will weary themselves, In her month, they shall find her!
Romans 1:22
Professing to be wise, they were made foolish,
Romans 12:16
The same thing, one to another regarding, - not the lofty things regarding, but, by the lowly, being led along. Be not getting presumptuous in your own opinion:
1 Corinthians 3:18-20
Let no one be deceiving himself: - if anyone imagineth himself to be wise among you, in this age, let him become foolish, that he may become wise;
Ephesians 2:3
Among whom also, we all, had our behaviour, at one time, in the covetings of our flesh, doing the things desired by the flesh and the mind, and were children, by nature, of anger - even as the rest, -
James 2:20
But art thou willing to learn, O empty man! that, faith, apart from works, is, idle?
James 3:13-17
Who is wise and well-instructed-among you? Let him show, out of his comely behaviour, his works, in meekness of wisdom.